McCain is referring to his support for "The Surge," and, man, that must have been really hard for him, seeing as how it was basically an inevitability upon conception and how the White House was bound to spin it as the greatest military success since the Battle of Thermopylae.

And, hey, there's McCain walking with Ronald Reagan, presumably talking about their life's work of making the tough choices instead of the easy ones. You know, like the tough choice John McCain would soon make to take campaign monies from Charles Keating.